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Phytoliths are `fossil micrometric minerals precipitated in plant tissues' which, along with other environmental evidence, can be significant in reconstructing the environment of a given site or region. These thirty papers, by a range of specialists, discuss and review how phytoliths are used to investigate issues in paleoclimatology, paleoecology, archaeology, soil science and food science. They discuss developments in recent research as well as individual case studies. One for the specialist!